Posts Tagged ‘Timothy Cahill’

It’s been a day of brisk turnout around Massachusetts as voters cast their ballots for governor and other constitutional offices, decided several hotly contested U.S. House races and weighed three ballot questions. Read the rest of this entry »

The South Shore’s Morning News with Rob Hakala & Lisa Azizian is live weekdays from 5 a.m. – 9 a.m. Simply put, it’s everything you need to get going in the morning! It’s a daily dose of News, Weather, Traffic, Business and Sports. This political season, the show is giving candidates the opportunity to answer questions posed to them by the award winning South Shore’s News Station. Today Governor Patrick joins us via phone @ 8:20 a.m.

The South Shore’s Morning News with Rob Hakala & Lisa Azizian is live weekdays from 5 a.m. – 9 a.m. Simply put, it’s everything you need to get going in the morning! It’s a daily dose of News, Weather, Traffic, Business and Sports. This political season, the show is giving candidates the opportunity to answer questions posed to them by the award winning South Shore’s News Station. Today Charlie Baker joins us via phone.

The South Shore’s Morning News with Rob Hakala & Lisa Azizian is live weekdays from 5:00 a.m. – 9:00 am. Simply put, it’s everything you need to get going in the morning! It’s a daily dose of News, Weather, Traffic, Business and Sports. This political season, the show is giving candidates the opportunity to answer questions posed to them by the award winning South Shore’s News Station. Today we talk with Green-Rainbow Gubernatorial candidate Jill Stein.

The South Shore’s Morning News with Rob Hakala & Lisa Azizian is live weekdays from 5:00 a.m. – 9:00 am. Simply put, it’s everything you need to get going in the morning! It’s a daily dose of News, Weather, Traffic, Business and Sports. This political season, the show is giving candidates the opportunity to answer questions posed to them by the award winning South Shore’s News Station. Today we talk with Independent Gubernatorial candidate Tim Cahill.

The top candidates for Massachusetts governor are draining their campaign accounts in the final drive to Election Day, even as the Republican Governor’s Association dumps another $1.5 million into the race. Read the rest of this entry »

BOSTON (AP) – The four candidates for Massachusetts governor are scheduled to meet with religious leaders from across greater Boston to discuss religious tolerance and the concerns of working families.

The event is being held Sunday evening at Temple Israel of Boston in the Longwood section of the city. The forum is sponsored by the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization.

Marshfield - In August when the gubernatorial race started to heat up, Democratic Governor Deval Patrick on WATD called for one issue-driven debate per week, from Labor Day until Election Day; WATD started making the calls, and invited all the candidates.

Democratic Governor Deval Patrick and Republican Charlie Baker, who were contacted numerous times, each ignored the request or never got back to WATD-FM.

A campaign spokesperson for Independent candidate and State Treasurer Tim Cahill said he was not able to attend because he had to attend to official state business.

Green-Rainbow Party candidate Jill Stein was the only one to accept the invite, and came to WATD’s studios on Wednesday night. Stein is a physician and a 1979 graduate of Harvard Medical School.

“I come here, to the political world, not as a politician but as a medical doctor, having worked for 25 years trying to get people the care they need in a broken system that just keeps getting closer to collapse.” said Stein. “That’s how I really learned personally that politicians just aren’t listening to us and that we never get the health care we need, not to mention the strong schools that we need or to get good jobs back, unless we really fundamentally take our government back and make it work for us.” Read the rest of this entry »

Independent Timothy Cahill has filed a lawsuit against former operatives who recently defected from his campaign,saying they conspired with local and national Republicans to undermine his candidacy for Massachusetts governor.

The text of the lawsuit was not immediately available, but in a statement Thursday, Cahill said former members of his staff “intended to use confidential information they obtained” whileworking for him to benefit Republican rival Charles Baker.

The lawsuit comes less than a week after Cahill’s running mate,Paul Loscocco, quit and endorsed Baker. He said Cahill could no longer win and is filling a spoiler’s role that allow Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick to gain a second term.

Senior adviser John Weaver and campaign manager Adam Meldrum resigned a week before Loscocco, making the same claim.

All three formerly worked on the presidential campaigns of Sen.John McCain.

Baker says he hasn’t seen the lawsuit. His campaign issued astatement calling on Cahill “to come clean about improperactivities in his campaign.”

BOSTON (AP) – Government employees in Massachusetts are leaving their tax-paid jobs on a daily and sometimes hourly basis to campaign for their bosses this fall.

It underscores a unique advantage enjoyed when incumbent politicians run for office. They have a publicly funded infrastructure they can count on that isn’t available to outsider candidates.

Employees getting their salary and benefits paid by the government are free to shift to political work, as long as they’re on their own time. But it’s a distinction that can be hard to see and even harder to police.

In the past week, top aides to state treasurer and independent gubernatorial candidate Timothy Cahill have been spotted at mid-afternoon campaign events. The same has been true the past month for aides to U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, Gov. Deval Patrick and Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray.